Evelynn M. Hammonds, Ph.D., is Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Chair, Department of the History of Science, at Harvard University. She was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard (2005–2008). From 2008 to 2013 she served as Dean of Harvard College. She holds honorary degrees from Spelman College and Bates College. Professor Hammonds is the director of the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. Professor Hammonds earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from Spelman College. In 2010 she was appointed to President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and in 2014 to the President’s Commission on Excellence in Higher Education for African Americans. She has published articles on the history of disease, race and science; African American feminism; African- American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS; and analyses of gender and race in science and medicine. Professor Hammonds’s current research focuses on diversity in STEM fields; the intersection of scientific, medical and socio-political concepts of race in the United States; and genetics and society. Prof. Hammonds served two terms on the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), the congressionally mandated oversight committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prof. Hammonds was appointed to the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine (CWSEM) of the National Academies in 2016. In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.